Achievement Quotes

Just as Oliver Cromwell aimed to bring about the kingdom of God on earth and founded the British Empire, so Bunyan wanted the millennium and got the novel. (Christopher Hill : 1912 : A Turbulent, Seditious and Factious People : John Bunyan and his Church : 1628-1688)

Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something. (Aldous Huxley : 1894-1963 : Proper Studies - 1927 : Note on Dogma)

He has, indeed, done it very well. But it is a foolish thing well done. (on Goldsmith's apology in the London Chronicle for assaulting Thomas Evans : Samuel Johnson 1709-84 : James Boswell Life of Johnson : 1791)

I would much rather be known as the mother of a great son than the author of a great book or the painter of a great masterpiece. (Rose Kennedy : 1890-1995)

It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year. (Tom Lehrer : 1928)